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HOW LONG WOULD A FIDGET SPINNER SPIN IN SPACE?

Like most parents of young children, I've been forcibly made aware of the "fidget spinner" fad. Despite FiveThirtyEight declaring them "over," my kids brought home two new ones from a birthday party on Saturday, adding to three others that we currently own, plus a couple more that were lost at school. Inevitably, bloggers have used fidget spinners as a jumping-off point to talk about science, notably Rhett Allain's two posts measuring the spin time and measuring the moment of inertia. More